"Whew...... Whew......"

Listening to the sound of heavy breathing behind him, Zhao Yongqi stopped for the third time. He tugged at the coldproof cloth on his face slightly, looked at the exhausted Xiao Tian and said, "Brother Tian, are you okay?"

"I didn't ...... It's okay. Trying to shrug the camera over his shoulder, Xiao Tian replied panting. It's just that from the large white mist that erupted from front of his face, it can be seen that his breathing is very heavy at the moment.

More than four hours ago, Zhao Yongqi and others took a multipurpose armored personnel carrier from the regiment's station to the last frontier company station, which was about 60 kilometers away from the Baogeda Mountain outpost.

As soon as the local company commander heard that these people were going to the Baogda Mountain outpost, his head shook like a rattle, and he didn't agree to anything. In the end, the regimental staff officer who came with him called the big black company commander to talk, and he finally reluctantly agreed.

There was no nonsense, the big black company commander surnamed Chen said a word to Zhao Yongqi: "If you can't stand it, go down, there will be deaths in that place!"

After such a sentence, the taciturn black company commander has not said a word until now.

Originally, Zhao Yongqi thought that these soldiers were underestimating people, and what they deliberately said seemed to be particularly serious, but when he actually set foot on the Baogeda Mountain outpost, he realized that he was too naïve.

It took an hour and a half for three multi-purpose armored personnel carriers with supplies sent up the mountain to stop. It's not that a post is built like an eagle's nest, and it needs people to climb up so hard, in fact, the post also has a direct road to the company.

However, according to Platoon Commander Zhang, who also escorted Zhao Yongqi and others up the mountain, it has snowed for a week in the mountainous area of Baogeda, and a 10-kilometer stretch of road in the mountainous area has been in a state of almost freezing, and it snowed heavily overnight last night, and now the depth of snow has exceeded 15 centimeters. In this situation, although the heavy armored carriers themselves use non-slip snow chains, they are in danger of falling into the valley if they are not careful. So there is no way, you can only rely on manpower to carry this last section.

The moment he got out of the relatively warm armored personnel carrier, the cold mountain wind desperately drilled through any gap in his clothes as if it were threatening to kill him, and the biting chill rushed from the back of his spine to his head almost instantly.

Zhao Yongqi, who jumped a few steps in place, barely adapted to the temperature, carried his marching backpack and the anti-freeze outer material bag, and walked towards the outpost with one foot deep and one shallow foot like the border guards who also got out of the armored car.

"Watch out for the snow pits!"

"There's a collapse on the left side!"

"Watch the ice!"

As you march, you can always hear such a message from the front. Unlike the usual shouting, the method of communication here is to pass down one by one, and Platoon Commander Zhang explained that this is because of the fear that shouting loudly will cause an avalanche. Therefore, the soldiers always turned around, approached the next person, and passed on the warning that came from the front.

In just ten kilometers, it is not more than 10,000 meters, and ordinary people commute to work farther than this distance, and even go out to buy vegetables, and it is not much worse to go back and forth. But in less than half of the walk in this place, everyone was so tired that they had no interest in talking.

Xiao Tian had stopped a few times, the first time Zhao Yongqi snatched his camera bag, and the second time he hung all the miscellaneous things except the camera on his body.

Now Zhao Yongqi is carrying his own marching backpack on his back, with a camera bag stacked on it, an assault rifle belonging to him on his chest, various small bags on both sides of his body are messy, and a fifteen-kilogram material bag is also carried on his shoulder.

Platoon Commander Zhang also wanted to help him share some of the weight at first, but he refused. Up to now, although Zhao Yongqi is also panting and struggling to advance, the soldiers in the platoon look at him a lot more kindly.

Seriously, these fighters don't have much affection for the people who suddenly appear and come to do some kind of shooting. Think about it, according to normal thinking, as soon as these people come, they will serve well and have no credit, and if there is a little problem, it will be to report criticism. They can't pick up their shoulders, they can't lift their hands, and they don't know how to go to the most difficult places to have an experience, doesn't this add extra trouble to ordinary soldiers? With this kind of thinking, I am afraid that no one will have much good impression of them.

If it weren't for Zhao Yongqi's always smiling and temperamental temperament, maybe these fighters wouldn't even be interested in taking care of them.

But now it seems that the camera crew of five people shared all the equipment by themselves, and Zhao Yongqi not only helped Xiaotian get the equipment, but also chose a large 15-kilogram material bag according to the standards of ordinary soldiers. This style, combined with admirable physical strength, gradually reversed the strange gaze of the warriors.

Finally turning from the relatively difficult mountain road to a small sunken clearing, Platoon Commander Zhang made a gesture, and the soldiers who had long been accustomed to it sat down on the mountain wall, which could be regarded as a temporary respite.

"Xiao Qi, how is it? Do you still hold on?" Platoon Commander Zhang counted several heads and found that there was no one missing, so he touched Zhao Yongqi's side and sat down, pulled down the cold cloth to reveal his red cheeks, and helped him take off his backpack first and put it aside.

"It's okay, it's just that this road is really not easy to walk. Licking his lips, Zhao Yongqi asked with a smile: "Platoon commander, is it like this here all year round?"

"No, if you had come two months earlier, it would have been much easier to walk here. Platoon Commander Zhang saw that Zhao Yongqi was indeed fine, and felt a lot more relieved, leaned on the rock wall and pointed to the distance and said, "However, you still have to be careful after you go up." If possible......"

When Platoon Commander Zhang said this, he glanced at the camera on Xiaotian's shoulder, approached Zhao Yongqi a little, and said in a low voice: "I will talk to Lao Wang (the current platoon commander of the outpost) who is guarding the rotation, and it is best that you do not participate in routine patrols." The road on the other side of the mountain is much more difficult to walk than on this side. ”

Zhao Yongqi nodded noncommittally, he knew that this was Platoon Commander Zhang's kindness, and there was no need to refute it here.

Seeing that Zhao Yongqi "agreed", Platoon Commander Zhang seemed to be a lot more relieved, and patted him on the shoulder before standing up: "I can only rest for ten minutes, be careful for a while." So saying, he got up and walked to the other warriors.

At this time, it was still snowing in the sky, but the snowflakes were not large, at least there would be no trouble such as obstructing the view. Looking from the halfway point of the mountain, the whole world seems to be shrouded in white, no matter how far or near, whether it is a mountain or a tree, there is only one color here, and that is - white!

When the cold air rushes into your nasal passages, you feel like the wings of your nose are frozen, and every time you breathe, it feels like you have experienced a process of freezing and thawing.

It is this place where ordinary people don't want to stay for a second longer, but a group of defenders of the motherland take this as their home and are willingly stationed here.

They are also ordinary Chinese sons and daughters, they are even younger than you and me, but they have chosen what you and I may never be able to do, and become a glorious Huaxia Guardian!

Looking around, Zhao Yongqi suddenly felt a sense of pride rising from his heart, and muttered to himself: "From today on, I am also a member here!"